What part didn’t work? I use that all the time in IntelliJ and Visual Studio Code.

In Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald, the NPC who asks “where are you from” and we get the options “yes” and “no”.

(He has not heard of yes town, nor does he believe we don’t come from anywhere at all.)

Well, for most real-world programming languages, you do have to teach syntax. You do not have to use the word “syntax”, you can call it something else.

Obviously there are things like Scratch that are intended for your exact use case.

I don’t think you need to use the word “syntax” at all when teaching anyone basic coding. There are many ways to paraphrase the concept. It is kind of an odd question, why that specific word?

In any case, the IPA above doesn’t seem “unpronounceable” at all to me as a native speaker of German and fluent speaker of English. The pronunciation isn’t intuitive from the spelling, that is quite a different thing from being unpronounceable.

Mia from Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Maybe they planned to make some changes, but never got around to them or at least didn’t get them to work the way they intended.

I don’t use one except for work (to connect to corporate networks).

A VPN mostly changes which entity you have to trust (from your ISP to your VPN provider). I don’t have a reason to distrust my ISP any more than any VPN provider. I don’t have any need to regularly get around any geoblocking.

When I do privacy-sensitive things, I use Tor, which is actually effective at hiding who I am and what I am doing.

You mean the part about spinning counterclockwise?

In the original text form https://what-if.xkcd.com/42/ this was just a link to the comic, I guess that wouldn’t have worked in a video.

It’s one of the best FOSS games I know. That is not a very high bar, admittedly; I suggest trying I out.

We native speakers of German intuitively pronounce an audible “g” followed by an audible “n” when reading “GNOME” and find it weird that the ordinary word “gnome” is pronounced with a silent “g” in English. The cognate in our first language is “Gnom”, pronounced with two consonants in the beginning, like the desktop environment.

What’s the difference between USA and USB?

One connects to all devices and accesses the data. The other is a hardware standard.

That would cause me to miss many interesting threads that were created at a time when I happened not to be looking at Lemmy.

“New comments” it is for me, that causes threads to get bumped to the top as long as other people still find them interesting.

Some people may not have known this. I didn’t know until now that there were other producers of that CPU architecture.

no, exit codes work the other way round: 0 = success, !0 = error

When I regularly played Need for Speed: Most Wanted (the old one from the 2000s), I often intentionally didn’t escape the cops at low wanted levels in order to get to higher wanted levels. Not sure this counts because it’s basically what you have to do if you want to have fun in this game…

Recently I’ve been playing a lot of EA FC 25, and when I’m already clearly winning (or losing), I usually commit a lot of fouls just because I can.

https://www.loweringthebar.net/2017/03/six-ways-brief.html

Do you have a link to a source for this?

Your list has nothing to do with members of the European Parliament (whose opinions on this or anything else are almost certainly not uniform in any country). The now-cancelled vote was going to be in the Council, where national governments (executive branches) are represented, not MEPs.

Of course one should still vote for good MEPs in 2029, whichever country one is in, so that point stands, but let’s not confuse people about what is going on.

Is it part of the joke (“oversized”) that the comic is way too big for the page, I wonder…